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If it is true that many in the community (the academic history community ?) are not above interjecting "educated opinion" or "politically correct revisionist thought" or any other interpretive invention for that matter, into their works then just because this occurs is no justification for exempting history from the requirements of academic integrety which apply to the sciences or any other discipline. How can you have any confidence in claims made about events in history unless those claims can be supported by honest research and not tainted by educated opinion ?
If Ray is correct, that documentary must follow the same Rules of Story as fiction, then you may as well not bother watching it - other than for entertainment, of course. It is bad enough knowing that the film media is so prone to error without seeing commentators not only accept the errors but applaud the system which introduces the error in the first place.
Vin
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Honorary Consultant on Policy and Ethics
On a Holy Purpose
The absolute self-appointed authority
Too myopic to comprehend
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